(10-11-2017 03:09 PM)eastisbest Wrote:  My original opinion still stands.

I could think of hundreds of better uses of that type money on a college campus. If it was a private donator that decided they wanted to put a glass wall on the library so people could look out at a wall, their business but a wise university might have said "no thanks, here's how we might direct the money towards your goals." Though construction has a lot of political and economic pull some leaders don't have the will to say "no" to, or encourage wiser stewardship.

Given a great desire to put a glass wall in the library, there were three other directions that actually would have spectacular views, towards U-Hall, campus green along the river or the Glass Bowl. Two of those would have avoided evening Summer sun. How or why they chose this direction or started the remodel without pre-construction public notice of invite of opinion, again, who knows?

Now a 360 roof top thing? That I can see. Good hosting place. Nice study option. And just in time for Autumn, which should be spectacular.

Not sure about the direction of the glass wall or if we want people on the roof, but quite a bit of the project was repairing the crumbling walls and upper walkways that were a mess.